Originally Posted by
Riczaj01
I think he's got, and will get, the tools to do to prove he is the long term answer this year: his own ability, the D, the O weapons(Forte, Marshal, Bennett, Jeffery), and the coaching staff. Emery just needs to get few OL pieces missing and the staff needs to get them developed into a solid group to protect him, and open holes for the run game; and a TE to solidify that area. And I do believe that will happen this year.
But From this year on it's up to Cutler to prove he deserves to be resigned to a long term deal; and if he doesn't, I could well see the team moving on from him. Right now he's not a top 10 qb, he's in that 11-15 range, along the lines of Rivers/Romo/Schaub/Ryan/Cam, all have the abiity to get their teams into the playoffs and make a SB run, but none have lived up to that ability, for various reasons. But why spend that kind of cap money that a franchise qb is going to cost you when they have proven they cannot take that next step?
Not to mention that this D is about to get too old, and when that happens if Cutler hasn't shown his worth, I could see the team blowing it up and starting over; and why not, you have 2 guys capable of developing a qb into something special, which was not the case when they traded for Cutler, which is why they traded for Cutler.
I wouldn't say it's highly likely that Cutler isn't here, but there are a few scenerios where he's not. It's hardly 100%; b/c if it was, he'd of been extended by now.
and for the whole what will Marshal do/think....he can walk too; when's the last time an elite WR won the SB? It's as rare as elite RB's right now. They are icing on the cake, but hardly the cake themselves.